Daily Inspiration Quote by Cheryl Tiegs

There is a quiet insistence in Cheryl Tiegs's phrasing: not the glossy triumph of celebrity motherhood, but the gritty, almost physical labor of insisting on existence. "Took us a great amount of strength" lands like a corrective to the airbrushed fantasy that babies simply arrive on schedule, conveniently photogenic. She emphasizes two battles: getting them "into the world" and keeping them "in the world", a doubled line that hints at infertility, medical intervention, premature birth, or some unnamed fragility. The repetition works as a kind of protective spell - if she names the struggle twice, maybe she can keep it contained.

Then she makes a sharp pivot from parental effort to the children's agency: "their little spirits... just said, well, we're going to be there". That's not literal, it's emotional truth-telling. Tiegs is reaching for a narrative that gives the kids power instead of casting them as passive outcomes of adults, doctors, or fate. In a culture that often frames motherhood as either effortless bliss or martyrdom, she threads a third needle: resilience shared between parent and child.

The subtext is also about public life. As a model, her body was once treated as a product; here, strength and "special"ness reclaim it as a site of endurance and meaning. The slightly rambling, conversational cadence ("you know", "well") matters: it reads like someone still processing the story, choosing warmth over polish because polish would feel like lying.